Strauss-Kahn's Accuser Nafissatou Diallo Speaks Out

The New York hotel maid who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempting to rape her said in an interview that he appeared as a "crazy man" and attacked her when she entered his room. Nafissatou Diallo tells Robin Roberts that Strauss-Kahn should be sent to jail. 

Newsweek cover to be released July 25, 2011 shows Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the alleged victim in the case, Nafissatou Diallo in this handout image relea1sed to Reuters July 24, 2011. Diallo gave Newsweek and ABC News permission to identify her by name. Until now, Reuters had kept to the practice in the United States of protecting the identity of alleged rape victims. The New York hotel maid who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempting to rape her said in an interview published on Newsweek's website on Sunday that he appeared as a "crazy man" and attacked her when she entered his room.

Newsweek's cover, featuring Nafissatou Diallo, the maid accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of assaulting her in a Manhattan hotel room. Diallo told Newsweek she wants the former IMF leader to go to jail.

This image provided by Newsweek shows the cover of the magazine's issue featuring Nafissatou Diallo, the maid accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of assaulting her in a Manhattan hotel room. Diallo tells Newsweek she wants the former IMF leader to go to jail. She alleges he sexually assaulted her while she was working at a Midtown hotel in May.

After arriving from Guinea in 2003, Diallo told Newsweek she spent years braiding hair before working at a bodega in New York City's Bronx borough. As a maid at the Sofitel hotel, she received $25 an hour plus tips.

Diallo said her husband in Guinea died of an illness but did not provide further details. Roughly two years after being raped by two soldiers in Conakry, the Guinean capital, she fled with her daughter, now 15, to the United States, where she said she has few close friends.

Following the alleged attack, Diallo spent weeks in protective custody, holed up in a hotel with her daughter.

"She's been in seclusion for over two months. She hasn't been able to take a walk in the park," her lawyer said.

French newspaper France Soir reported in a front page headline that David Koubbi, the lawyer for French writer Tristane Banon, who has accused Strauss-Kahn of a 2003 sexual assault, had met with Diallo. It added only that he "was impressed by her courage."